minor error with smb mount

[firwareslut]

ok but real men use Linux haha!

[firwareslut]

The other thing this affects is the timestamp which is why rsync keeps copying the same files as it thinks the files are older than they are.

[Jocko]

This issue seems very common with the samba server. Try google with the words: chmod chown samba permissions denied

For now, I have not found an answer ...

[firwareslut]

Maybe it's a problem with the server version on the NAS? I don't understand that I can do it between Ubuntu machines with zero effort and no configuration other than the defaults. I have managed to configure rsync in a different way to avoid the problem.

I just read something about the workgroup needing to be the same. I will check this out.

[firwareslut]

ah fuck it I give up!

Tried this

//192.168.0.150/public /media/NETWORKHD cifs username=adam,password=xxxx,workgroup=mshome,uid=adam,gid=adam,users,allow_other 0 0

And set the samba configs on my ubuntu machine to be the same workgroup name.

But still no go! It would have made sense for why the windows connection managed to change the permissions though?

[Jocko]

Bad new

On some forums, topics with the same issue, open since several years (particularly with ubuntu) are still unresolved!

[firwareslut]

I think I am getting closer.

I tried mounting the share with the wrong password and it still mounted. I suspect it might having something to do with the guest account.

What configuration smb.conf do I need to play with to make some new tests? I noticed there are two. And how do i stop and start the samba service?

[fvdw]

well as said I think it is more likely a client issue. I mean when windows can change the permissions there must be a way to mount it that it works.
I thought the same about guest account, but thats not the case. Only in case of a bad password then the mount is mapped to the the guest account, which is assigned to user nobody. Just try to create a file in the mounted share. When you have used the right password it will be owned by the user that made the mount. If not it will mention nobody as owner.
I made a test with changing the paswd files (on the samba server) and given the user login access (as default all users have no login access. This because I read that user must have a valid login. (still a question mark why windows doesn't need it). Now when mounting it with that username and running Linux witht the same username on the client I get operation not permitted instead of permission denied. Of course still not a solution.

the smb.conf file is in /rw_fs/tmp/usr/lib
It will be recreated at every boot so changes will not be permanent, for that the boot scripts must be adapted. But as long as you don't reboot you could make changes in the file. For some I think you don't need to stop and restart samba. Below the commands that you could use to stop and start samba

stop samba

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killall -9 nmbd
killall -9 smbd


start samba

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/usr/sbin/nmbd -D -l /var/log/samba
/usr/sbin/smbd -D -l /var/log/samba

which settings to change ? I tried various such as adding user as administrator and using dos filemode and but no solution....(I also tried adding mounting with workgroup name but no solution)

More info on settings you can find here
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/man ... onf.5.html

[firwareslut]

OK will give it a shot but it sounds like you have tried the examples I had planned.

I just don't get it. We are both experiencing results that contradict each other.

1. You can change permissions from Windows to the NAS share
2. I can change permissions from Ubuntu to another Ubuntu install over smb mount (so client is the set up the same way)
3. Neither of us can change permissions from Linux to NAS share

[fvdw]

We are talking on SMB share, not NFS
add 1. I can change permission of files in a SMB share on the NAS from windows if the username used by windows is owner of the file (this is also the way it is supposed to work).
add 2. maybe it is useful to compare smb.conf files
ad 3. correct so far i could not change permissions using Linux on the NAS of files in a mounted SMB share from another NAS running Linux.

To make it complicated
4. I can change the write permission (on/of) of the owner using Linux on the NAS on files in a mounted share on the NAS of a shared (samba) folder of Windows PC, that is a ntfs file system.